KNOX – When your name spells virus, all you can do is smile
MIKE LAM was a little wary when his brother Jim changed the message on the marquee outside their Colwood store this spring. “CORONA FOODS, NOT CORONA VIRUS,” it read. No [Continue]
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KNOX – Beware of the dreaded accordivirus; it’s highly contagious
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGH things couldn’t get worse, some truly terrifying news: Accordion sales are going through the roof. “It’s crazy,” exclaims Martin Hergt, who owns [Continue]
KNOX – Woman awakes to be told she had died months ago
WILMA WILLIAM had a rough start to her Monday. “I got up in the morning and I was 80 years old,” she says. “But by the time I read my mail, I was dead.” This was news [Continue]
KNOX – Roger the marmot awakens to a very different world
HERE’S IRONY: The loneliest guy in Victoria is emerging from isolation just as the rest of us go in. We speak, of course, of Roger, the marmot, who lives on the grounds [Continue]
KNOX – Don’t give in to temptation; stay home and stay the course
IT WOULD BE DUMB, at this point, to jump out of the lifeboat and start swimming back to the Titanic. That is, we in B.C. have done an admirable job of following instructions, [Continue]
KNOX – An ode to Dr. Bonnie Henry, on guitar and standup bass
AS THE VIDEO BEGINS, all you see is Gordon Campbell — no, not THAT Gordon Campbell — standing in his Sidney home with an upright bass. Then Diane Campbell, an [Continue]
KNOX – Honeymooners in India scrambled to get home to Canada
THEY’RE NOT A STEREOTYPICAL COUPLE, so it stands to reason that they wouldn’t have a stereotypical honeymoon. Archdeacon Alastair McCollum is the English-born, [Continue]
KNOX – Would you rather be trapped at home, or on a cruise ship?
IN ALL HONESTY, says Metchosin’s David Kirkham, there are worse places to be trapped than a cruise ship off the coast of South America. There has been no sign of COVID-19 [Continue]
KNOX – When in Rome, wash your hands but don’t steal the hand sanitizer
THEY HAD to screw the hand-sanitizer dispenser to the church wall. With all of Italy desperate for disinfectant gel, and the dispenser tantalizingly close to the front [Continue]
KNOX – Michelle Obama sells inspiration in uninspiring times
FUN FACT: At 56 years of age, Michelle Obama will be the youngest headliner to play Victoria’s arena in the past five years. OK, that’s not true, though the acts that [Continue]
KNOX – No one voice can speak for the Wet’suwet’en people
TUESDAY MORNING, a group that included a handful of old white guys who looked, well, kind of like me demonstrated outside the Langford home of Premier John Horgan. In doing [Continue]
KNOX – Viral message – Keep calm and wash your hands
TO REPEAT: In 2003, a total of 44 Canadians died of SARS, and we panicked. By contrast, 8,511 of us died from garden variety flu and pneumonia in 2018, and we yawned. As [Continue]
KNOX – The dilemma of dealing with porn in public
IT WASN’T JUST that the guy was watching porn on his phone, in public. It’s that the porn was of a particularly bizarre and graphic nature, the kind where the average [Continue]
KNOX – Global epidemic fears trump the mess in the mirror
SNEEZING, HACKING sweating like a TV evangelist, hurtin’ like a country song. “I think I’m dying,” I told her. “I’ve got Wuhan coronavirus.” “Wuhan!” she [Continue]
